Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

34 By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise [is] in my mouth.

² In Jehovah doth my soul boast herself, Hear do the humble and rejoice.

³ Ascribe ye greatness to Jehovah with me, And we exalt His name together.

⁴ I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me.

⁵ They looked expectingly unto Him, And they became bright, And their faces are not ashamed.

⁶ This poor [one] called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

⁷ A messenger of Jehovah is encamping, Round about those who fear Him, And He armeth them.

⁸ Taste ye and see that Jehovah [is] good, O the happiness of the man who trusteth in Him.

²⁰ And Saul hasteth and falleth -- the fulness of his stature -- to the earth, and feareth greatly because of the words of Samuel; also power was not in him, for he had not eaten bread all the day, and all the night.

²¹ And the woman cometh in unto Saul, and seeth that he hath been greatly troubled, and saith unto him, `Lo, thy maid-servant hath hearkened to thy voice, and I put my soul in my hand, and I obey thy words which thou hast spoken unto me;

²² and now, hearken, I pray thee, also thou, to the voice of thy maid-servant, and I set before thee a morsel of bread, and eat, and there is in thee power when thou goest in the way.'

²³ And he refuseth, and saith, `I do not eat;' and his servants urge on him, and also the woman, and he hearkeneth to their voice, and riseth from the earth, and sitteth on the bed.

²⁴ And the woman hath a calf of the stall in the house, and she hasteth and slaughtereth it, and taketh flour, and kneadeth, and baketh it unleavened things,

²⁵ and bringeth nigh before Saul, and before his servants, and they eat, and rise, and go on, during that night.

15 And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

² for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,

³ for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

⁵ And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

⁶ that with one accord -- with one mouth -- ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;